akhosravian

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by akhosravian 4y ago
Is there something in particular that leads you to that belief?
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Someone born in 1885 who lived to be 70 was brought into a world where it took weeks to get from the US to Europe, and died in a world where it took hours. TNT was the hottest in explosives at their birth, and we’d seen the spread of city e
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by akhosravian 4y ago
It’s funny you’re using “blue collar” to mean low skilled probably things like retail cashiers, but folks in trades actually make very livable wages in the US. Here’s a recent article from the seattle times: https://www.seattleti
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As video games grow, they are eating the media(economist.com)
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by akhosravian 4y ago
I suspect the concern OP was referring to was not that bots aren’t challenging, but to the sense they play differently than players do. There is overlap in what it means to be good vs players and bots, but there are also elements unique to
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by akhosravian 4y ago
It’s certainly unintuitive, but surely it isn’t necessary for video game mechanics to map directly onto real world actions to be interesting.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
FWIW the behavior of delete on a pointer that isn’t either null or returned from new is undefined. So a conforming C++ compiler doesn’t have to diagnose this mistake, and similarly the compiled program doesn’t have to do anything meaningful
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by akhosravian 4y ago
What’s the actual cost for chargebacks here? Presumably they are quite capable of revoking licenses to the purchased item. This is slightly hairier for in app purchases laundered through a game currency run by a third party, but still seems
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Here’s an excerpt from Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind. The psychologist here is a woman approximately his age (early 60s at the time) who he describes as a prominent psychologist: >Specifically, the psychologist felt that
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Surely the most challenging thing with encountering strange code is the “why” not the “what”. Am I alone in this?
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Sure. To be clear I’m not saying I think they are the same thing. I don’t have the language to explain the difference in a manner I find sufficiently precise. I was hoping others might.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
I do not have children. I think this perspective is interesting, thanks for sharing it!
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Would love to use duolingo, but they have no interest in supporting iranian languages. I’ve never really seen a clear answer for why. They have about 200 million native speakers worldwide. Persian, Pashto, Kurdish are the largest.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Can you explain how “pattern matching” differs from “reasoning”? In mechanical terms without appeals to divinity of humans (that’s both valid, and doesn’t clarify). Keep in mind GPT 4 is multimodal and not just matching text.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Is there a technology for wireless communication that exists that has a small enough delay to make this happen? Certainly it’s a problem well under speed of light constraints, but VR apps need to be running at least 90 hz to avoid making us
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by akhosravian 4y ago
At the risk of being accused of missing your point: you owe it to yourself to try a nice built in bidet. Many people who try it don’t want to go back to paper alone. Or not. Your call.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
“It’s just auto complete” is probably one of the worst takes out there on AI. It’s also clear the author doesn’t actually know how LLMs work and is parroting information, e.g. “…it tries to get you to finish your sentence with the statistic
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by akhosravian 4y ago
You would have a capital loss to carry forward, and this is part of why the current rules aren’t great for people who aren’t already wealthy. If the tax bill is a big chunk of your net worth it makes it hard to take advantage of what might
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by akhosravian 4y ago
In this context companies aren’t a pinky swear “I promise this has value”. A 10x valuation increase for a private company happens for a reason: for VC funded start ups that is often because they did an up round. Someone else put a lot more
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Because shares in a company represents something of value. Just because a company’s shares are privately held doesn’t make them worthless. The IRS has ways to estimate valuations of privately held companies. The problem unique to folks like
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Yes. The problem is there are various reasons why you can’t just sell stock or an early stage company the same day.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
It’s really eye opening how big the gap is not just in labor costs but also perishable goods. When I was in morocco 10 years ago one of the buckles for my motorcycle pants suspenders broke. I was able to get a local leather worker to create
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Sure and I am in my legal right to sue you for making this post. It doesn’t mean it will go anywhere if we actually end up in court.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Leaving the books as-is is one thing, but keeping a statue of a person implies they were worth honoring. Leopold II committed some of the most heinous acts ever done by any individual: about half the population of Congo was killed in the tw
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Can’t tell if this is a troll or not. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post not the Wall Street journal.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
This is the business model of patent trolls.
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Maybe I am wrong but I don’t think “ban” is the right word. Texas prohibited state agencies from doing business with them. Private citizens and businesses can still do whatever they’d like. Here’s a better article: https://www.t
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Iran was known as Persian until 1935. “Iran” is the Persian word for the country, “Persia” comes to us via Greek. For some further context: “Persian” is the preferred term in English for the language spoken by most of the people of Iran. “F
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by akhosravian 4y ago
thathndude says they are an attorney above, and pointed out some states have laws that allow for attorney’s fees on top of the actual claim. They also said they do the work on a contingency basis. If that is common practice one is out only
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by akhosravian 4y ago
Something to consider is google has not built an original product that matters since gmail —- Android and YouTube we’re acquisitions. I would argue they are structurally incapable of building some significant new business internally. Zuck s

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